Senegalese financier Pathe Dione, 81, died on Thursday 12 January in Paris, France, APA has learned from media sources.Very famous in the world of finance…

Morocco will not take part in the 2023 edition of the CHAN, which will be held in Algeria from January 13 to February 4. A…

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will take “appropriate measures” against any members of its intervention force in Mozambique found to be linked to the…

Ghana's Statistical Service has announced that the inflation rate for the month of December 2022 increased to 54.1 per cent, up from 50.3 per cent…

The increase in Inflation rate from 50.3 per cent in November to 54.1 per cent in December 2022 is one of the leading stories in…

The transitional government has recruited 50,000 volunteers, who are armed civilian auxiliaries of the Defense and Security Forces to defend the country against terrorist groups.Captain…

The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) recently released its semi-annual report covering the period from June 23, 2022 to December…

All South African adults must be vaccinated with additional booster shots because vaccines have proved to be efficient beyond reasonable doubt in preventing Covid-19 infections,…

The report that the World Bank Group has once again lowered its growth projection for Nigeria's economy, citing a weakened oil sector as its primary…

Amnesty International on Thursday called on Mozambique and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to launch an independent probe into an incident in which soldiers…

The death toll from Malawi's cholera outbreak has increased to 750 as the number of new infections jumped by nearly 600 in a single day,…

The ECOWAS Commission has briefed the United Nation's Security Council (UNSC) on the political and security development in West Africa and the Sahel region as…

Angola's fertility rate is 6.2 live births per woman, while the maternal death rate, or maternal mortality ratio (MMR), stands at 239 deaths per 100,000…

The price of OPEC basket of 13 crudes stood at $77.00 a barrel on Tuesday, January 10, 2022, compared with $77.57 the previous day, according…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has responded to the news reports that Uganda's constitutional court on Tuesday, January 10, struck down Section 25 of…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the restrictions imposed in the release on bail on Tuesday of Pape Alé Niang, director of…

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has begun the 2022 mini-bid round process to spur new oil exploration and drilling activities in the prospective…

China has agreed to cancel an unspecified amount of debt owed by Ethiopia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has disclosed.The debt cancellation agreement was…

Benin's Autonomous National Electoral Commission (CENA) on Wednesday announced provisional results of Sunday's legislative elections with the opposition winning the capital.According to the CENA, the…

The Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM) makes not secret of its intention to infiltrate and encircle the Malian capital.GSIM on January 10 claimed…

Eritrea has reacted strongly to what it calls the preposterous claims made against the country and its people by Michael Rubin writing in a US…

African Union Commission and Chinese officials on Wednesday inaugurated the first phase of the China aided African Center Disease Control (Africa CDC) Headquarters in Addis…

The rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in the north of Ethiopia, has begun handing over heavy weapons to the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF),…

A recent discipline, based on soccer and played on a curved table, teqball is gaining more and more followers in Sadio Mane's country.This early January,…

Cape Town International Airport has almost fully recovered from the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with official data showing that the gateway to one…

The Green Cities Initiative, a project supported by the FAO, will be implemented in Cote d'Ivoire within a few months as part of a partnership…

It was the country's first Sudan ebolavirus outbreak in a decade and its fifth overall for this kind of Ebola.Uganda declared the end of the…

This is the second time in three months that Captain Ibrahim Traore has changed ministers since his coming to power.Issouf Sirima was removed from the…

An advert featuring a black woman standing next to one of BMW's latest BMW 5 Series models has caused an uproar in South Africa, with…

The report that Ghana lost a total of $1.1 billion through unaccounted gold exports between 2019 and 2021, according to investigations by the Economic and…

South Africa's identification of a new Omicron subvariant known as XBB.1.5 will not lead to the country imposing new restrictions on the population, Health Minister…

The warning by Conflict Research Network, West Africa (CORN West Africa), yesterday, that terrorism could threaten the conduct of the general elections in the northeast,…

The 21st century scramble for Africa by the world's major powers is not necessarily a straightforward affair and could therefore be seriously misconstrued, writes Nick…

Rwanda's consumer inflation accelerated for the second straight month in December 2022 on the back of higher food prices, official data has showed.Consumer price index…

The Election Observation Mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS–EOM) to the Legislative Elections in the Republic of Benin, led by H.E.…

The price of OPEC basket of 13 crudes stood at $77.57 a barrel on Monday, January 9, 2023, compared with $76.15 the previous Friday, according…

Ethiopia and its neighbor Somalia have signed a revised Air Services Agreement (ASA) that aims to boost the two neighboring countries' collaboration in the aviation…

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has directed senior government officials to focus on solving problems facing the population instructing the Prime Minister to restrict "unnecessary" foreign…

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) intervention force in Mozambique launched a probe into an incident in which suspected members of the force were filmed…

A former head of the Presidential Guard in Guinea, Aboubacar Sidiki Diakite, also known as Toumba, who has long cultivated the image of a sulphurous…